Various NCN members are working on peace related projects. If any of you
want to participate in more concerted cooperation, write to some of them.
For example: Burt Wilson futurecon@earthlink.net, Ed Elkin
edelkin@aol.com, Steve Diamond ommm7@rain.org, Joanie Misrack
jmisrack@igc.apc.org, Barbara Marx Hubbard fce@peaceroom.org, and
others. - Flemming

Below is a message from Burt Wilson futurecon@earthlink.net:

It's Time for Random Acts of Peace!

Too many people think that peace is the absence of war and that peace will
somehow descend upon us if we withdraw from the arena.

Wrong.

Peace is not a negative ideal, thus peace is not the absence of something,
it is the presence of something. In other words, just as it takes acts of
war to make war, so must it take acts of peace to make peace. If planes,
tanks and guns are the instruments of war, what are the instruments of
peace? If the government collects taxes from us to run a department to
conduct war, shouldn't it also use that money for a department to conduct
peace? It takes an act of Congress to declare war, but would Congress know
what to do if it were asked to declare peace?

Peace does not arrive in a vaccuum yet even though peace is the most sacred
goal of humanity, our government has no plan for it. That's right; even
though the US Constitution was established to "promote the general welfare,
and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity," a
provision which implies a state of peace, our own government can't come up
with a plan for peace. There is only one word for this omission: madness.

But wait! Something is happening in America. Something is happening today
that has never happened before in the history of humankind. That something
is: the consciousness of the people has outgrown that of their leaders.

There is a grassroots groundswell springing to life at this very moment in
the United States and all over the world. People want peace. And that
means people want their governments to want peace. In fact, people are
demanding peace as a basic human right. And it doesn't end there. People
are taking action to bring about a state of peace with or without
government cooperation. In short, people are engaging in random acts of
peace. In fact, several website have Proclamations, Resolutions,
Declarations and Peace Plans where you can get involved simply by writing
or e-mailing your national and state representative. These are concrete
actions you can participate in to bring pressure on government to recognize
that peace, like war, has certain logistics to it and can only be brought
about through acts of peace. The Peace sites which offer
you the opportunity to make a random act of peace follow: